subject: How To Save Water, Electricity, Energy And Money [print this page] There are plenty of ways in which you can save energy very easily by just following certain guidelines. This will not only affect the environment in positive manner, but also it will save some bucks of yours as well. Here are some tips which you many follow to minimize the energy consumption in your home:
1. Replace all the incandescent bulbs of your house with Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL). Using these bulbs will reduce the energy consumption and the money spent on these bulbs will be repaid by not giving big payments for the energy consumption.
2. Shower heads with low flow is also a very effective and smart way of saving water and its cost. Having low flow in the showers will save plenty of gallons in each shower.
3. Installing solar lighting can also be considered as a very smart approach in energy efficiency. If not possible to install it on large base, it can at least be installed in the garden and security system of the home. Just the installation charge some bucks, after that it free energy can be generated from sun.
4. Applying drip irrigation process is a very nice way of watering plants in field. Its not kind of approach where water is sprayed all over the field, rather in this technique hoses run all through the field, and holes or leaks are made in the hoses wherever there is need of giving water. The benefit of this approach is that water is feed only where it is required (root base), so amount of water wastage decreases.
5. You must properly insulate your hot water heater, so that energy cant be lost due to contact with surrounding.
6. In winters when there is need of heating, you should not always turn on the thermostat and heat the entire house, instead you should use space heater which will heat the portion where you exactly want heat. So, this approach will prevent the energy wastage which was consumed for heating the entire room prior.
7. Huge amount of heat is being lost through the roof in winter and plenty of radiant heat came inside in summer. So, there is need to establish a radiant heat insulation on the roof so that it can reflect back the heat in your house in winter and reflect outside in summer.
So, one should always keep in mind these tips to minimize energy consumption at their home.
